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“Spring 2023 harvest. I’ve been craving this tea ever since I sampled it last year so I jumped at the chance to buy a 100g bag. This year’s harvest is nearly as good as the previous one. This is an...” Read full tasting note
Shelf-shaded for around two weeks, this Samidori kabusecha from Uji combines the sweetness and umami of a gyokuro with the body and structure of a sencha. Shading the tea plants from the sun causes them to produce fewer bitter-tasting catechins and instead make more sweet and savoury amino acids such as L-theanine.
Uji has long been at the centre of Japanese tea and has been famed for its high-quality tea production for centuries.
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Spring 2023 harvest.
I’ve been craving this tea ever since I sampled it last year so I jumped at the chance to buy a 100g bag. This year’s harvest is nearly as good as the previous one.
This is an elegant tea with a taste somewhere between sencha and gyokuro, leaning a bit more towards the latter. The umami is there but restrained and accented with sweet seagrass, chlorophyll, and spinach. I’ve enjoyed having this as a cold brew this summer. Super fresh and clean tasting and doesn’t get bitter even when its sat for a while in the fridge.
Unlike many greens, it seems to improve with age. The leaves are more aromatic and the flavor has more depth since opening the bag.
Have yet to try a kabusecha but sounds like I’m missing out! Wasn’t super impressed with two recent senchas I tried from Tezumi though. Do you like their senchas too?
I liked their Matsuba sencha but wouldn’t revisit their other senchas. This is the only one that really stood out to me
Yea I also only really liked their Matsuba sencha. The other two I tried weren’t great…